dream pop

  • Get to Know crushed, Saturday (3/30) at Ortlieb’s

    This Thursday Los Angeles duo crushed – comprised of Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan – kick off a four-date North American tour, which will find them headlining our very own Ortlieb’s Lounge this Saturday, March 30th (March 28th will have them at TV Eye in Brooklyn and the final...
  • Puppy Angst Make Their Johnny Brenda’s Debut, This Saturday (7/1 w/ So Totally and Well Wisher)

    “I’m putting the shoe in shoegaze,” jokes Alyssa Milman, vocalist, guitarist, and founder of local D.I.Y. act Puppy Angst, while discussing their potential wardrobe for the band’s Johnny Brenda’s debut this Saturday, July 1st: “I’m wearing insanely high shoes that I don’t know if I can play in yet! ...
  • Church Girls’ Mariel Beaumont on Philly, Live Music, and “Girls” Bands (5/6 at MilkBoy)

    I can’t remember the last time I had a lineup make me prouder to reside in the 215 than this Saturday’s (5/6) show at MilkBoy, featuring the “shoegazey/dreamy fuzz pop” of Puppy Angst (whose Alyssa Milman we chatted with this February), the “Rain Boot Core Twee” of Grocer, and...
  • Bodywash on Getting Darker and More Cohesive (4/18 at The Fire)

    Montreal shoegaze duo Bodywash are preparing for the release of their sophomore album, I Held the Shape While I Could, which drops April 14th on Light Organ Records.  The album is the follow-up to 2019’s Comforter.  However, during a recent phone chat with Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward,...
  • Purity Ring Returns to The Road (6/27 at UT)

    Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...
  • Dehd’s Jason Balla on Blue Skies: “This is our best one yet!” (10/22 at Brooklyn Bowl)

    Unfortunately, Chicago trio Dehd’s show scheduled for this past Sunday at Union Transfer had to be cancelled with someone in the group’s touring party testing positive for COVID….  But, just today they announced more than a month of Fall dates, including an October 22nd stop at Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia. ...
  • Jordana: “I’m guessing it’ll be a nice, chill indie rock night…” (6/3 at JB’s)

    “I’m really excited to play Firefly.  I’ve never played a festival before,” says Jordana Nye (better known as simply Jordana), the bedroom-pop-star-turning-legit-alt-pop-sensation behind “I Guess This Is Life” (which has more than a million streams on Spotify).  Just yesterday the singer/songwriter released her debut LP, Face The Wall, courtesy...
  • Hatchie: “We have a proper light show involved this time around and sooo many new songs!” (5/5 at The Foundry)

    Last week Australian dream pop singer/songwriter Hatchie released her sophomore LP, Giving The World Away, courtesy of Secretly Canadian (Cherry Glazerr, Faye Webster, Skullcrusher).  Although the album follows-up 2019’s Keepsake, Hatchie has said it feels like a restart of sorts.  Without losing any of the charm of Keepsake or...
  • Poppy Goes Alternative (4/2 at TLA)

    The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw viral-performance-artist-turned-pop-star Poppy was February of 2020, when she last appeared at Theatre of Living Arts, supporting her recently released third LP, I Disagree, which had the candy-coated cyber princess transform into a legit metal vixen (The album...